Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.